Barton le Street, North Riding

Description
Barton-le-Street, a township a parish, and a village in the N. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the Thirsk and Malton branch of the N.E.R., and on the line of a Roman road, under the Cleveland Moors, 5 miles WNW of Malton, and it has a station on the railway and a post office under Malton. Acreage, 1675; population of the township, 177. The parish includes also the townships of Butterwick and Coneysthorpe, each of which has its parochial chapel. Population, 421. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York; net value, £295 with residence. The church was entirely rebuilt in 1870, but a rich variety of Late Norman sculpture was introduced into the new work.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5